subtilty

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The Apostle recognises, beyond the subtilty of Jacob and behind the blessing of Isaac, the Divine retribution.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles

On these and on many other points of scholastic philosophy the Seraphic Doctor exhibits a combination of subtilty and moderation which makes his works peculiarly valuable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Rarity is the contrary of density; it denotes the thinness and subtilty of bodies: thus you would say that mercury or quicksilver was a very dense fluid; ether, a very rare one.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

“Well, your majesty, you must meet subtilty with subtilty.”

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert

Garnet made a long defence at the bar; and on the question of equivocation he defended himself with much subtilty.

From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas